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Senator Wyden lays out “digital freedom” agenda at CES

29 points by iProject 14y ago

tptacek 14y ago
The CISPA cybersecurity bill received strong support from both parties in the House, and Wyden said today that he was one of only a few Democrats in the Senate who opposed it. CISPA is a "tell" that says "I oppose cybersecurity legislation without considering what it says". CISPA did not enable "government snoops" to access personal information. It enabled the government to share incident and attack data with private companies, and created a mechanism by which large service providers could share incident data with the government. I like Wyden! I just wish he wouldn't make comments like this that make it seem like he's demagoguing. Any schmuck could figure out that there's a lot of very loud people on the Internet that will cheer on opposition to regulation of any sort. I'd like to think Wyden isn't just that!
- mmanfrin 14y ago
  Excuse me, what? CISPA is the opposite -- it is a tell that supporters support governmental oversight of private data in the name of 'cybersecurity'. There are a lot of loud people on the internet that cheered in its opposition, but there was a majority support before that fact -- something that Wyden is using to distinguish himself: he was against before the backlash.
  - tptacek 14y ago
    I think you haven't read CISPA. That's not what CISPA does.
stcredzero 14y ago
SOPA should be a wake up call in an additional way. > Government's main role in technology should be to stop incumbent companies who try to "hotwire" the system, said Wyden. "Not infrequently, they seek out special help from the government—while claiming they want a marketplace that doesn't favor government intervention." Incumbent companies are hotwiring the system all the time, at the federal, state, and local levels. We stopped SOPA because it was brought to our collective attention and we cared enough to take action. The thing is, SOPA was just business as usual for companies -- they had done the same in many different ways before, so our reaction surprised them. We should take notice that this is happening all the time and we're just not paying enough attention.

29 points by iProject 14y ago

The CISPA cybersecurity bill received strong support from both parties in the House, and Wyden said today that he was one of only a few Democrats in the Senate who opposed it. CISPA is a "tell" that says "I oppose cybersecurity legislation without considering what it says". CISPA did not enable "government snoops" to access personal information. It enabled the government to share incident and attack data with private companies, and created a mechanism by which large service providers could share incident data with the government. I like Wyden! I just wish he wouldn't make comments like this that make it seem like he's demagoguing. Any schmuck could figure out that there's a lot of very loud people on the Internet that will cheer on opposition to regulation of any sort. I'd like to think Wyden isn't just that!

mmanfrin 14y ago
Excuse me, what? CISPA is the opposite -- it is a tell that supporters support governmental oversight of private data in the name of 'cybersecurity'. There are a lot of loud people on the internet that cheered in its opposition, but there was a majority support before that fact -- something that Wyden is using to distinguish himself: he was against before the backlash.
- tptacek 14y ago
  I think you haven't read CISPA. That's not what CISPA does.

stcredzero 14y ago

SOPA should be a wake up call in an additional way. > Government's main role in technology should be to stop incumbent companies who try to "hotwire" the system, said Wyden. "Not infrequently, they seek out special help from the government—while claiming they want a marketplace that doesn't favor government intervention." Incumbent companies are hotwiring the system all the time, at the federal, state, and local levels. We stopped SOPA because it was brought to our collective attention and we cared enough to take action. The thing is, SOPA was just business as usual for companies -- they had done the same in many different ways before, so our reaction surprised them. We should take notice that this is happening all the time and we're just not paying enough attention.